Contra Pils
Contreras in Gavere, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Lager - Pilsener Regular|
Score
5.29
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Brewed since 1954.
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6/10
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jun 2025
at 14:56
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle 0,33ltr: Dark golden pilsener from this Belgian micro, little fruity, sweety and some bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:51
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Contra Pils, 25-cl-Fläschchen aus fränkisch-belgischem Biertausch mit Jef Verstraete - thanks, Jef! - Goldgelb, klar. - In der Nase weiche aber doch pilstypische zitronig-herbe Hopfung. - Antrunk sauber hellmalzig und kernig zitronig-hopfenherb mit ganz zarter Vanillesüße und einem Spritzer Säure. Schlank, trocken. Im Abgang ordentlich hopfenbitter und leider ein klein wenig ranzig. - Solides Pilsner aus Belgien, deutlich besser als so manches deutsches Industriepils. Nur schade, daß die Flaschen so klein sind ... (19.12.2023.)
Tried
on 19 Dec 2023
at 15:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Clear blond, white foam. Very grassy nose, light sweet, bitter hoppy finish. Nice Belgian pilsener.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2023
at 16:13
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden color, just a bit of malt in the aroma, nothing more. Medium to full bodied. Just a bit hoppy, somewhat perfumed. Grainy and grassy with apple. Even a hint of candy sugar. Decent pilsener, not spectacular, but there is a lot of difference from the pilsener giants.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample at ZBF. golden beer with a small head, aroma is sweet malt, taste i the same some bitterness
Tried
on 05 May 2015
at 13:54
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 8
at ZBF15. Thnx for sharing, people ! Pours clear blonde, smell is weak, some grains. Taste is bitter, intense lager, with a bitter MF on top. OK
Tried
on 28 Apr 2015
at 16:09
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Sampled @ ZBF 2015. Pale clear golden, little white head. Nose is metallic, sweetish, sugar, quite metallic. Taste is thin, empty, corn, hugely metallic, light white sugar,… Thin, metallic. Not better than the industrial varieties. (Thx! for sharing people!)
Tried
on 26 Apr 2015
at 07:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Unambitious and old-fashioned ’regional pils’ from Gavere, snow white head, golden colour with a faint orange hue (a bit darker than usual for the style), soft malty character, sweetish and fruity pale malts in onset, finishing in a mild herbal hoppiness, more bitterish than usual in Belgian pale lagers. In this particular segment quite okay and genuine, and less cliché than what one would expect.
Tried
on 10 Aug 2014
at 07:19
6.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Contreras Contra Pils (by Contreras):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
29/IX/2012 - on tap @ Contreras brewery (Gavere) with the Gentse Biervereniging - BB: n/a (2012-1086)
Clear blond beer, creamy white head, very stable, nice lacing in the glass, adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, bit grassy, herbal, peppery. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: grains, hay, herbal, bitter hops, bit metallic, cow fodder. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, grains, bit metallic. Has a sort of "German Quality" to it. Definitely a nice bitter pilsener, better than most Belgian pils crap.
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
29/IX/2012 - on tap @ Contreras brewery (Gavere) with the Gentse Biervereniging - BB: n/a (2012-1086)
Clear blond beer, creamy white head, very stable, nice lacing in the glass, adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, bit grassy, herbal, peppery. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: grains, hay, herbal, bitter hops, bit metallic, cow fodder. Aftertaste: bitter, dry, grains, bit metallic. Has a sort of "German Quality" to it. Definitely a nice bitter pilsener, better than most Belgian pils crap.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2012
at 10:06